Place Name Originally Garden Close. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980) was Archbishop of…
Place Name Originally part of Overton Road and later Wiltshire Road, part of the Lambeth Wick estate and dating from…
Place Name Thomas Mawson (died 1714), founded what was to become Fuller’s Brewery. He was living in Chiswick by at…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Forest Hill to Honor Oak. There was indeed an oak tree, on One…
Place Name Previously part of Bayswater Road, this small stretch of road between Ossington Street and Palace Court was renamed…
Place Name Originally Dirty Lane and later Charles Street. Dr Thomas Augustine Arne (March 12, 1710 – March 5, 1778), was…
Place Name The name suggests it was connected with a water channel but in fact it comes from an innkeeper…
Place name Descriptive. Laid out with a slight curve between 1633 and 1677. As John Strype explained in 1740: “So called…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. This was originally a field owned by Westminster Abbey but had, at the time of development,…
Place Name Previously Chapel Alley. Sir William Slingsby (29 January 1563 – August 1634), was an adventurer and property speculator.…